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-What: Deprecated snapshot ioctls
-When: 2.6.36
-
-Why: The ioctls in kernel/power/user.c were marked as deprecated long time
- ago. Now they notify users about that so that they need to replace
- their userspace. After some more time, remove them completely.
-
-Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
-
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-
What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter
When: March 2010 / desktop catchup
What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
(in net/core/net-sysfs.c)
-When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches
- for enough time, probably some time in 2010.
+When: 3.5
Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other
ways (ioctls)
Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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-What: KVM paravirt mmu host support
-When: January 2011
-Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both
- on newer and older hardware. It is already not exposed to the guest,
- and kept only for live migration purposes.
-Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
-
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-
What: iwlwifi 50XX module parameters
When: 3.0
Why: The "..50" modules parameters were used to configure 5000 series and